Re: Make psql's qeury canceling test simple by using signal() routine of IPC::Run

On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:20:23 +0900
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 03:18:05PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 12:45:24AM +0900, Yugo NAGATA wrote:
> > > I attached the update patch. I removed the incorrect comments and
> > > unnecessary lines. Also,  I rewrote the test to use "skip_all" instead
> > > of SKIP because we skip the whole test rather than a part of it.
> > 
> > Thanks for checking how IPC::Run behaves in this case on Windows!
> > 
> > Right.  This test is currently setting up a node for nothing, so let's
> > skip this test entirely under $windows_os and move on.  I'll backpatch
> > that down to 15 once the embargo on REL_16_STABLE is lifted with the
> > 16.0 tag.
> 
> At the end, I have split this change into two:
> - One to disable the test to run on Windows, skipping the wasted node
> initialization, and applied that down to 15.
> - One to switch to signal(), only for HEAD to see what happens in the
> buildfarm once the test is able to run on platforms that do not
> support PPID.  I am wondering as well how IPC::Run::signal is stable,
> as it is the first time we would use it, AFAIK.

Thank you for pushing them.
I agree with the suspection about IPC::Run::singnal, so I'll also
check the buildfarm result.

Regards,
Yugo Nagata

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> Michael


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